Installation
Earth + branches + ceramic pieces + river stones + lavender essence
120 cm in diameter
2024

A bonfire of sawn branches. A ritual round of women. A circle of stones. The earth that overflows. Earth, branches, medicinal herbs, and ceramic pieces as symbols of a society disconnected from nature—one that harms what it creates.

I draw upon the ritual circles of women, inheritors of ancestral wisdom. Seven bodies metamorphosing, twisting in constant transformation. Seven, like a cycle, like the phases of the moon, like the days of the week. Bringing into dialogue the violence suffered by bodies and by the territories where women are denied deep knowledge of their own habitat.

In her book Revolution at Point Zero, Silvia Federici states that “around the world, women have led the struggles against commercial logging and for the protection and reforestation of forests…” It is women’s bodies that remain exposed in the defense of harmony with what exists. Thus, I take 70º—the temperature at which human skin burns irreversibly—and 275º—the temperature at which wood ignites—referencing the deliberate burning of forests.